NO, you left out that because of the spectacular Garden Railroad shots by Marty, we are all now second guessing our investments. I would think UB will see the brute force of SD45’s moving ton’s/ounces of snow and start buying up all the Hustle Muscle he can find.
If they do the sound would probably be crappy[xx(]
Tom
Most likely. We won’t get into naming the proposed downloadable wav files of various prototypes. [;)] Gee, this thread really went down the toilet.
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Originally posted by On30Shay
He can run what he want’s on his stuff. If he gets a wild hair and wants to motorize a bunch of turds and run them, he can do that, too.
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I wonder what couplers that would take??
Kadee #2’s??
Ok this was good for a laugh.
James
Well just have to horn in here. Publication of Eric Brooman’s layout was the inspiration for me to finaly design my own. While I cannot compare my work to Mr. Brooman’s I feel I’m doing a decent job with certain simularities to his, namely the six staging loops. I’ve always admired his craftsmanship in building locomotives for his road, and I feel sometimes a change is necessary to keep interest at a high level.
So updating to GE models is a step that will contribute to the interest. I can only hope that when he tires of the GE’s he will do as I did and kitbash some ALCO’s out of them.
Now that’s a much better idea than running Oh! Whatever!
Antonio & Dave (and anyone else who has properly deemed me as grumpy…),
You both make good points. I suppose there’s no harm to the “debate” as long as it doesn’t get personal and ugly…and I’ve seen that happen over lesser issues. And, yes, Eric is taking his railroad seriously, to a point. He’s devised a well though-out concept and is sticking to it…but I haven’t seen him raise an eyebrow because I switch my intermodal yard with a B&M S1.
I suppose I’m getting just as serious even replying to all this. But in these days of devastation on the Gulf coast, government corruption and incompetance, the challenges of being the husband and father my family deserves and just keeping my house and keyboard rig functioning, Eric’s choice of motive power seems a silly thing to debate. [soapbox]
Besides, SD70ACe’s are ugly as sin…[;)]
I heard they tried, and it really stunk…
Back on topic, since he went with GE do you think he is using the GE repair program or doing the repairs in-house, isn’t that another reason many RR’s have gone to GE? On my RR we buy used EMD’s but buy new GE’s since they are the better runners, though we did get stuck with those monster SD80MAC’s that NS got on the Conrail buy [banghead], talk about fuel hogs and keeping them running, my shop people staged a 1 day walkout on that deal. I now know better.
I don’t know what Mr. Brooman would be selling out to? When you “sell out”, you are compromising your values and convictions. Perhaps Mr. Brooman thought the GE units looked really cool and decided to model them.
It is his model railroad and he owns it. We all have our traditions and they change over a period of time. It is funny to me that he started using GE’s at a time when the SD70Aces are starting to sell and the Montana Like purchased them.
By the way, EMD just signed an order for 300 SD90MAC’s 6000HP units to China. They will be modified for export, but they are 6000 HP units. It is on their web page and that means they are taking orders ane will continue to be an alternate Diesel supplier to the railroads. .
What a hornet’s nest this has stirred up,anyone fancy throwing there GE units my way, i will give them a good home
geez guys , they’re all diesels , what’s the difference ?
everybody knows you should be running steam
[:)]
YEAH!!!. S1-c’s, FEF’s, J1’s (from Pennsy, natch), T1’s, AC’s, …oh, oh, oohhhhhhhh!
(Umm…I’ll be right back…)
Boy, talk about throwing gas on the fire…
There’s a video from the NMRA Convention showing the Digitrax sound. It’s quite good, and no one can touch the price. Where’s this idea that is does, or will, stink come from? Had anyone paid attention, the person who did the videotape himself mentioned the apparent bell drop-out is his fault from the hasty editing.
–Randy
Time to flu***his subject.
Yeah…diesels suck…and I have their phone number.
LOL, Dave! [(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D][;)]
…All you missed was Mike Wohlf (sp?) suing somebody.
-Dave
BWilcox,
You are not a grumpy! You posted a good thread.
GUYS, some of you, IMHO, are over reacting! Why are you hurling mud at the man? We’re not in a demolition derby. [:(!] We can kid each other, but please don’t get nasty! [B)]This is a classic Ford vs. Chevy thread and we should be having fun with it…[:p]…not launching heat seeking missles.[V]
SD70ace ugly? Hmmmmmmmmm. O.K, they don’t look as nice as the cowl nosed style previous version, yet still, I think that they look better than the traditional EMD “Spartan Cab” design that’s lasted about 40 years since the GP35 was introduced!
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